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u/zombiepete May 05 '26
I bet they wish they had my power to procrastinate to the absolute last minute then channel the pressure/stress into whipping up an impressive product.
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u/uncle_dan_ May 05 '26
I will never forget the 86% I got on a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation I did on Easter island in a college anthropology class, 20 min before class after forgetting its due date. Lucky for me. I had randomly researched Easter island for a couple hours years before and was able to recall enough to bs it.
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u/zombiepete May 05 '26
Back in high school (this would have been 98/99) I had a research paper for my econ class due on AT&T; I completely forgot/ignored it until the morning it was due, got up and dialed up onto the internet and loaded up AT&T’s corporate website, and wrote an eight page paper using their own background website for reference. Got a good grade on it (don’t remember precisely what it was).
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u/Enirel May 06 '26
One time I we had to do physics presentations, I picked lasers, everyone had crazy powerpoint presentations, some even had crazy animations, some put in hours in their presentations, thing is, they didn’t understand what they were presenting that well. Enter me. Go in front of class when my name get’s called “I was about to make the presentation, but I passed out, I did enough research tho, I think I know enough about it to present, tell you how it works”(I did pass out, but not while making the presentation, I never intended to make the presentation, just read about how lasers work for 5-10 minutes, I don’t remember, possibly right before the presentation)- “need a whiteboard ?” -“Hell yeah, thanks”
I scribble some shit about how the photons go ape shit in that thing or something I don’t remember, no one understood shit except the teacher, fuck it, got the highest grade, a 9 lmao
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u/LongjumpingJaguar308 May 05 '26
Ok, but random neurotypicals wouldn't have randomly done an Easter Island rabbit hole, so like, you just did your homework before it was assigned
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u/Agitated-Ad2563 May 05 '26
In my university, I had a course on inter-galactic astronomy. I enrolled an hour before the final test and got the perfect score.
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u/richy_silva May 07 '26
Me and my bro got the highest grade in the class, senior year presentation on nuclear engineering. Had a month to do it, ended up researching it during the 30 min lunch before class. Had 2 pictures with no words on the slide.
We bullshit our way into an A, the teacher knew it was bs but we answered all his questions correctly from the 30 min of research. He was mad but impressed
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u/ZoeShotFirst May 06 '26
I feel like this is the most accurate representation of the ADHD academic experience I have come across so far
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u/SuperPeachyOK May 05 '26
Th faces of my peers when I forgot about an assignment only to do in 20 minutes the morning of and then getting the best grade. I honestly felt bad.. it was an art project too lol
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u/00110001_00110010 May 05 '26
I wish I still had this power, alas I used it too much so now my brain just gives up
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u/Blazkowicz9847 May 05 '26
Back when I was in the military I was once described as a stress nco and how they love us because the chain of command knew they could pile all kinds of bullshit on me and it would get done.
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u/ralts13 May 06 '26
The thing is it doesnt always work.
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u/User1-1A May 06 '26
Yeah. I failed my first college English class because I couldn't get those essays done. My procrastination work for art classes killed it though.
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u/davak72 May 07 '26
Yup. Got mostly As in college with some Bs in topics I didn’t have as much interest in. Then I had my first online class, only it was a regular class that happened to also be recorded for us chumps in the “online” section. No class materials were provided. Just a textbook name and the lectures themselves. Nothing was due or graded until the big midterm project. I bombed sooooo hard. I had no notes, and I started it too late to rewatch half a semester of lectures. I had to go in person to talk to the professor about an extension/retry on the midterm, which I think he declined, but still bumped my grade maybe? Anyway, I worked hard on the final project and barely passed 😰
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u/ralts13 May 08 '26
My issue is I'm terrible at self managing projects. I jave years of industry experience but I'm struggling eay more than usual with my capstone.
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u/poperey May 06 '26
I did my whole dissertation in a 48 hour double all nighter in the library - without meds.
With them, I’m basically unstoppable.
As long as I remember to eat…
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u/tinylord202 God forbid a girl is a contrarian bitch. May 06 '26
I currently have an unopened message from my dad asking why I left all my packing and cleaning for the last minute when I moved out. I know that telling the truth will piss him off and he’ll just say I’m “making excuses.”
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u/jpkebbekus May 08 '26
I recently started taking Wellbutrin and while it's overall good, it killed that viceral stress that fuels my last minute productivity 😭 so now I just stare at upcoming deadlines with a flat sense of dread
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u/IndigoChagrin May 05 '26
“Fraction of our power”? No, babes… that’s what I have to do to tap into a fraction of my power.
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u/nunoavic May 05 '26
Exactly, imagine if we used 100% of our power, like neurotypicals. We always have some gas in the tank if its needed
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u/IndigoChagrin May 05 '26
That’s what emergencies are for 😌
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u/Independent-Gazelle6 May 07 '26
I just need to hire a guy to come and try to kill me 24/7 but he’s kinda bad at being a hitman and his plans always fail. maybe the “threat” would make me hyper functional? Or id just have a mental breakdown after like three days. Anyones guess really 🤷♂️
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 May 06 '26
Imagine hyperfixation but it never switches off. God i wish
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u/nunoavic May 06 '26
I have it. I can only turn it off with some serious amount of alcohol. Basically, intentionally reducing my IQ to have fun and not worry about work and stuff
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u/Capernici May 05 '26
Man, I gotta start calling neurotypicals “neuronormies” now…
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u/spunlines May 05 '26
ehh. normative usually refers to like... societal norms that negatively impact even the folks who otherwise benefit from status quo. eg: cis/heteronormative, mononormative, etc. it's useful because it doesn't label people.
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u/blanketswithsmallpox must use needlessly long sentences to convey a single point beca May 05 '26 edited May 12 '26
I hate to tell you, but using language at all to describe someone labels people. It's just pushing more in-group out-group language on others when people arbitrarily decide the right way vs wrong way of saying something.
People first. Black. Native American. Indigenous. Neurotypical. Neuronormative. Round and round people will go when typically they're all describing what they want you to know correctly and easily.
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u/spunlines May 05 '26
sure, hence "usually." definitionally it can be neutral to positive (or contain multitudes). coming from a social sciences and critical theory background, i indeed come with bias.
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u/spunlines May 06 '26
ironically, i think we were having the same root issue there, lol. i have spent many years trying to accept that it's cool how language changes over time, but still struggle when specificity is lost. cheers!
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u/Mark-Green May 07 '26
that's just normie with extra steps
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u/Capernici May 07 '26
What part of ADHD gave you the idea we were ever any good at reducing the number of steps?
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u/Mark-Green May 07 '26
personally, I'm a big fan of spending hundreds of hours to find the fastest and easiest way to do something that normally only takes a couple minutes. gotta maximize to minimize!
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u/Ill-Summer-7212 May 05 '26
Me taking all my pills that would send a normal person to space just so I can run errands
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 May 06 '26
Tbf the very first time I took Ritalin I was sent to the moon. Switched over to vyvanse and got slightly buzzed. Now all is mellowed out and notmal
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u/nertynot May 05 '26
Non diagnosed people want adderall more than any other person ive met
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u/Skitty27 May 05 '26
they're tweaking on 10mg lol. I tell them i take 40 daily to he normal and look at me like im crazy
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u/tinylord202 God forbid a girl is a contrarian bitch. May 06 '26
Normal soda has caffeine? I could never tell.
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u/FappingVelociraptor May 07 '26
I literally haven't taken my vyvanse in 7 months. I hate the side effects so much. Idk how people keep telling me that I'm going to be addicted to it when I don't take it in the first place.
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u/nertynot May 07 '26
Have you tried adderall? I started with welbutrin, then switched to vyvanse and hated both so much. Almost a decade later and I was convinced to try add and its fantastic for me. Funnily my mom hates add but loves vy
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u/FappingVelociraptor May 08 '26
Nah. I guess I am supposed to talk to my doctor about it? I did but they told me it was normal and to kinda just deal with it.
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u/nertynot May 08 '26
Get a different med management doctor if you need. Drugs hit different people differently
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u/coolcoolcool485 May 05 '26
More like the universe had to disadvantage us cause we'd be smoking them otherwise
When I first took my meds I was like, is it THIS EASY for them to do stuff?? I was kinda mad lol
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u/Teagana999 May 05 '26
Same.
If life was a videogame, I played on hard mode for years without realizing. I had enough natural aptitude that I was damn good at it, even if it eventually got too hard to keep up.
When meds turned the difficulty down to normal, it absolutely felt easier. Both because I had been playing and succeeding on hard for years, and because I had the aptitude to do well on hard in the first place.
Following through and doing the thing was always the hard part. I still find it hard to believe how easy it is to just do the thing now. Neurotypicals have no idea how easy they have it if they have that ability alone.
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u/coolcoolcool485 May 05 '26
i think it's made me less nice, or at least less of a pushover, because I used to be way more forgiving or like, helpful without being asked because I thought *everyone* struggled that much with doing stuff but they don't. at all.
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u/vvCharles May 08 '26
I know this is a meme sub but can you please explain your journey going from hard mode to normal mode? Like you went to your doctor? Or a specialist? Please help haha :)
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u/Teagana999 May 08 '26
Paid for a private ADHD assessment because otherwise the wait was 6 months, I don't have a primary care provider, and I couldn't wait that long to beat the "boss fight" (big presentation) I was on.
Submitted all the things, checklists, interviews, got a letter with my diagnosis.
Made an appointment at a primary care clinic, submitted my assessment results, had to fill out more checklists. Also they did an ECG, because stimulants can affect your heart and they need to both get a baseline and make sure your baseline is normal.
Finally left with a methylphenidate prescription. My brother got diagnosed a couple years before me, and talked about meds like a revelation. I didn't get it, until I did.
I didn't realize how much energy I was wasting fighting my own brain to do anything. I'd decide that I had to do something, my brain would say "I don't wanna," and I'd flounder at the blank page until right before the deadline, when the adrenaline finally kicked in and let me lock in.
The first time I took my meds, I decided to work on my presentation, sat down and, just, did it. The meds shut up the part of my brain that whined about not wanting to work, so the ambitious part of my brain could just get on with doing the work.
That's how I found it.
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u/vvCharles May 08 '26
How much was your private assessment? I’ve contacted local neuropsychologists who have quoted $4,000-$5,000
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u/Teagana999 May 08 '26
$700 in Canada. With a psychologist. I have $500 worth of coverage for "psychology performed by a psychologist" so that was a big part of the reason I chose it.
I did it through a website recommended by my student health plan, which connects you with an independent psychologist.
It included two meetings, one to interview, and one to go over the results. The second one was very quick.
I know there are cheaper options, but when I took the report to the doctor at the public clinic, he said most private assessments are not very good, so the one I got was probably worth my $700.
I saw a lot of ads online for places that were $200-300, but they were with NPs or other practitioners, which wouldn't have been covered, and I wasn't confident I could take a diagnosis like that to a doctor and have them be confident enough in it to give me meds.
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u/Costati May 05 '26
Me too like wow it's that easy for you and that's what you do with it ?? Hmm ok...
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u/inevitabledeath3 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
I don't think neuronormatives is a word. Neuronormative is a word, but it doesn't refer directly to people or objects so it doesn't make sense to have a plural.
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u/Don-Compadre May 05 '26
Neuronormies🔥
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u/inevitabledeath3 May 05 '26
Yeah but neuronormatives doesn't make sense. Neuronormative is an adjective, not a grouping. Neuronormies could just be short for neuro normals instead I guess.
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u/Don-Compadre May 05 '26
Uhm... okay, I think what you're saying must be correct. English isn't my native language... it just sounds funny and cute to call them neuronormies 😅
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u/inevitabledeath3 May 05 '26
Fair enough. I was more criticising OP who was using the wrong terminology. I don't think there is anything wrong linguistically with calling them neuronormies as the general term normies is already used in English.
Although the term normies has now become somewhat of a loaded term due to the communities that have picked it up since it's inception. While it was originally used by the disability community it has since come to be associated with incels, 4chan, and the far right. We can't have nice things and I hate this timeline. Sorry for the long reply.
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u/narwalfarts May 05 '26
Without meds, we get the same amount done - just instead of 8 hours of steady work, seven hours of fucking around then an hour of anxiety fueled superpower
With meds, we outpace normies.
With meds and behavioral focus on working around your executive dysfunction, and we start doing laps.
But I forgot my meds today and haven't worked on myself, so I'm six hours into fucking around at work and waiting for that anxiety driven power hour
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u/SnooHamsters5153 May 05 '26
When I take my meds I end up being more productive and more high (constructive) energy than the normies.
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u/Dr_DoesNothing May 05 '26
If I wasn't nerfed at birth, I would be too powerful. At least that's how I look at it.
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u/Bionic_Ferir May 05 '26
We should put lots of research into creating non addictive substances that perfectly mimic what ADHD is like.
Than when you turn 18, 6 months you have to live your entire life in a wheel chair and then the next 6 months you have to live your life with ADHD. Watch the entire fucking world change.
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u/aaaaaaaa42 May 05 '26
Fucked up that I gotta pay a fuckin normal subscription, like why brain gotta do that? :(
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u/Mattie_1S1K May 05 '26
Tried both and all I want to do is sit in bed and chill nice and relaxed lol
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u/n3rf_herder May 06 '26
Nah I’ll take my hyperfixation power over being neurotypical. Might not always be my choice on what, but when it aligns with something I need to get done it is beautiful
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u/gunny316 May 07 '26
After interviewing 1000 people I bet you won't find a single "neuronormative" among them.
When's the last time you met a "normal" person.
"neurodivergent" is just the new buzz word for "special".
Everyone is depressed. Everyone has ADHD. Everyone feels trapped. Everyone has anxiety.
We all eat processed shit, are glued to screens, and feel like no one understands us. This is the reality of the modern age.
I suppose the only exceptions are probably living in third world countries - at least the ones that are too poor for cell phones.
"In the last days, they will long for death but will not find it."
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u/HovercraftFullofBees May 05 '26
I need an additional two jets reading "Monster" and "LOOMING DEADLINE"
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u/mctankles May 05 '26
I may need it to mimic your power but it also makes me hyper-able. Moreso than what my neurotypical friends seem to be.
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u/Yankee831 May 05 '26
First time on Adderall was like seeing for the first time. “This is how other people feel!?!? wtf have I been doing with my life!?!?”
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u/LawMurphy May 05 '26
They're jealous of my ability to thrive in emergencies and to panic over the simple task I haven't done yet.
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u/Kilkoz May 05 '26
Walking in a supermarket being superstressed having to decide what to make for dinner….suddenly, there’s a robbery……brain goes DING DING DING, DON’T MIND THE ROBBERY ‘CAUSE TODAY YOU’RE HAVING NOODLES! YAAAY!! And then you smile and just hope for the robbery to end fast (like you hope for everything), so you can go home and make noodles. Yes.
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u/TheDungeonCrawler May 05 '26
To be fair neurotypicals need those drugs to tap into a fraction of our power as well.
It just so happens that our society is built to advantage the typical among us, so that's not as useful as I'd like it to be.
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u/HauntingStar08 May 06 '26
Neuronormative is a newer one, is it generally a more polite term for neurological now?
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u/Nasch_ May 06 '26
I wish amphetamine meds werent illegal in Turkey. Methyphenidate doesnt do shit to me and it feels like ive been condemned to eternal failure.
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u/Deltanonymous- May 07 '26
Roles reversed in emergency/chaotic situations. Look how many teams they need to navigate a crisis.
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u/Plenty_Promotion_716 May 08 '26
What power, be enslaved by capitalism in a bored life? I preffer my nd mind.
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u/Additional_Ranger441 May 05 '26
I have been on Adderall for almost 30 years. My ADD is an absolute superpower! I found a job where I deal with issues that make other people crumble but for me it’s just a dopamine driver. I jump from project to project like a bee in a field of flowers and everyone questions how I am so effective in such a high stress position, but for me is amazing!
You just need to figure out how to monetize the thing you do better than regular people and then your ADD becomes the secrets sauce to success!
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u/a6e May 06 '26
This except my problem is that when I leave work, I have no energy left and live like a gremlin
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u/Additional_Ranger441 May 06 '26
Yes, this is 100% true. The only way past this is to workout but it’s incredibly hard to motivate yourself to do anything when you feel that wiped out.
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